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“Open Access Buttons”<\/a> by h_pampel<\/a> is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Collins Memorial Library is recognizing <\/em>Open Access Week<\/em><\/a> Oct 19-25 with a series of posts and events. This is the first of five in a series of blog entries about Open Access.
\n– Ben Tucker
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Open Access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge to the user and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors. “Introduction to OA”<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0University of Washington Libraries\u00a0is licensed under\u00a0CC BY 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n

The Open Access movement was birthed from a conference of the Open Society Institute, where attendees drafted the Budapest Open Access Initiative<\/a>, which was published in early 2002. The initiative called for using new technology to develop an \u201cunprecedented public good\u201d through free exchange of scholarly literature. The document went on to define this as Open Access:<\/p>\n

\u201cBy \u2018open access\u2019 to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Open Access Explained<\/a>, a short video from PHD Comic gives a great overview of the context in which Open Access provides important benefits.<\/p>\n